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Harry Redknapp will ask Alexandre Gaydamak, the Portsmouth owner, to make transfer funds available if Jermain Defoe, his top target, is put up for sale by Tottenham Hotspur this summer. Otherwise, he intends to follow last summer’s successful blueprint which brought experienced Premiership players such as David James, Kanu and Sol Campbell to Fratton Park. All cost next to nothing and so could be offered sizeable wage packets. Mark Viduka, of Middlesbrough, and Fredrik Ljungberg, of Arsenal, are players who fit the pattern.